Skateboarder Without A Peer
Cody Peer of Mililani is by far Oahu’s best girl skateboarder. She’s also one of the few girls competing in the sport. So she’s leading a campaign to get more girls involved — not just because she needs the competition, but because skateboarding is so darn much fun
Even the guys are impressed by Cody’s
fearlessness
she’s going to be good.”
A former surfer - “I actually won three contests” - Peer does seem to excel at whatever she tries. Her dad, Glenn, who troubleshoots for the Board of Water Supply, recalls she played baseball with boys. Customers would ask, “Is that your daughter? We always come down just to watch her, she’s so good.”
Peer hasn’t yet won a skateboarding competition against the boys, but as her dad says, “She always places in the finals though.” She won an all-girls’ competition once when there were three girls - enough for a separate girls’ competition.
“Sometimes I get close to beating the guys, but you can’t always get what you want,” she says. “I think it’s hard to beat the guys because they’re not scared of anything. They do a lot of flip tricks and grinding. I’m not the best pick of the litter for all that technical stuff, but I will try and I do, but sometimes it doesn’t work out the way I want it to. One day I will beat the boys for all those girls out there.”
In an e-mail response to some follow-up questions, Peer sends her positive vibes to MidWeek readers:
“Make sure to not care what anyone thinks about you because you know what you’re worth,” she writes. “No one else will know how much you want your dreams to come true, so don’t let them shatter it. ... Wish me luck in the future, and I will try to make a difference in this beautiful world of ours. Peace and love all, Cody Peer.”
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